Sinik: Biography

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Birth Name:

Thomas Idir

Born:

Jun 26, 1980 in Paris, France

Genres:

World & International Music, International Rap Music

Decades Active:

2000's

Dubbed "the French Eminem," rapper Sinik was born Thomas Idir in Paris on June 26, 1980born to a family heralding from Algeria's mountainous Kabylie region, he survived a troubled youth marked by several prison stints by channeling his anger into hip hop, and at age 14 befriended another aspiring rapper, Mélanie Georgiades, better known by her stage alias Diam's. In 1996 Idir cofounded the group L'Amalgave with friends Agoudjil Djamel, Oudjehih Anis and Lalmi Tareklater renamed Ul'Team Atom, the lineup splintered after a series of mixtape appearances, and in 2000 the first solo Sinik release, the EP Malsain, followed on the 3.5.7 label. After cofounding his own Six o Nine label, Sinik issued the fulllength Artiste Triste in 2003the record proved a major underground hit, and in mid2004 he signed to major label Warner Bros., which issued the doubleplatinum La Main Sur le Coeur early the following year. The blockbuster Sang Froid hit retail in the spring of 2006.

- Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide